Word: beef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year the index was still 100. The construction index, 62 in 1945, actually shrank between 1950 and 1954, from 100 to 90. Agricultural output, apart from grazing, went up by about one-third under Perón; grazing declined. The combination of more mouths and less meat cut beef exports drastically, and total exports fell off 10%. With less foreign exchange to pay for imports, Argentina last year imported 13% less (measured in 1950 pesos) than in the depression year...
MEAT PRICES will probably go up this fall despite mountainous supplies of beef, lamb and pork. Reason: rising labor costs resulting from the 14? hourly wage boost given packinghouse workers by four big packers (Wilson, Swift, Armour, Cudahy). If (as seems likely) the 14?-an-hour increase becomes the pattern for this year's labor contracts, the cost to the nation's packing industry will be $50 million annually, more than the whole industry's profits...
Hors d'Oeuvres: caviar, ham, roast beef, salted salmon, carp, sheep cheese, salami, potato salad, stuffed eggs, and fresh tomatoes with chopped green onion tops...
...that this improbable character in Twelfth Night had emotional problems and intellectual limitations: "I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world." Again: "Many do call me fool." But why? Surely not for the reason that Aguecheek himself offered: "I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm...
Endlessly westward from the 97th meridian stretch the Great Plains of the state of North Dakota, fertile in places, arid in others, baked by the summer sun and blown by the winter wind. Here wheat is grown, hard red and durum, and herds of beef cattle meander across far-ranging pastures, silhouetted against low horizons; here more than 40,000 shining combines work 63,000 well-kept farms. The farmers are apt to feel sensitive when casual visitors from lusher and more verdant places refer to their hard-worked land as a desert...